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UCT RESEARCH REPORT 2012
Research Groupings
associated with this theme
Through the African Oral History Archive project, the
CPM has more than 3 000 oral history recordings in 12
languages, many with full transcripts and translations,
preserved, migrated and gathered over 25 years.
The African Memory Project (AMP)
aims to increase
access to, and use of, oral and visual collections in
Africa. To this end, it collaborates with international
leaders in fields of oral history and memory studies to
analyse Africa-centred research materials. Memories
of Apartheid is a key project of AMP that seeks to
engage civil society on various levels and includes a
number of transnational and international research
and educational partners. The project will develop a
large-scale oral-history programme and conduct filmed
oral-history interviews with people who lived through
apartheid, across South Africa. It will also develop a
centralised digital archival model for the gathering
and dissemination of audiovisual archival material for
educational use on an international scale.
Director: Dr S Field
E-mail: sean.field@uct.ac.za
Web: http://www.popularmemory.org.za
Centre for Rhetoric Studies
The centre was founded in 1995 and remains unique on
the continent, where it has pioneered the emergence
of rhetoric studies (as mentioned in Blackwell’s
International Encyclopedia of Communication)
. It
concerns itself with multidisciplinary research in public
rhetoric, deliberative democracy and argumentative
culture. The centre engages in three main activities:
hosting research fellows, organising academic
conferences and registering postgraduate students
(master’s and PhD). It publishes its findings through
the
African Yearbook of Rhetoric
(AfricaRhetoric
Publishing). The Centre has a success rate of nearly
100 per cent in numerous competitively funded
international research projects.
Director: Distinguished Professor Ph-J Salazar
E-mail: philippe.salazar@uct.ac.za
Web: http://www.rhetoricafrica.org
Institute for Comparative
Religion in Southern Africa
The Institute for Comparative Religion in Southern
Africa (ICRSA) is dedicated to the postcolonial
study of religion and religions in South Africa
and the Southern African region. In addition to
developing resources for the study of religions and
reconfiguring the study of religion from a Southern
African perspective, ICRSA has participated in
international research projects on religious
education and cultural heritage. ICRSA houses the
peer-reviewed, accredited
Journal for the Study of
Religion.
Director: Professor DS Chidester
E-mail: david.chidester@uct.ac.za
Web: http://www.uct.ac.za/departments/comp_
religion/index.php
Isaac and Jessie Kaplan
Centre for Jewish Studies and
Research
The Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish
Studies and Research was established in 1980 under
the terms of a gift to the University of Cape Town
by the Kaplan Kushlick Foundation and is named
in honour of the parents of Mendel and Robert
Kaplan. The centre, the only one of its kind in South
Africa, is autonomous and has its own governing
body. It seeks to stimulate and promote the entire
field of Jewish studies and research at the university
with a special focus on the South African Jewish
community. The centre is multidisciplinary in scope
and encourages the participation of scholars in a
range of fields including history, political science,